Hannele Jyrkkä has edited this upcoming book of 37 contemporary Finnish choreographers titled Nykykoreografin jalanjäljissä. Johanna is one of the featured choreographers of the book. It’s published by Like and it will be launched at the Full Moon Dance Festival in Pyhäjärvi on the 27th of July. Johanna will be present at the book launch.
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Mandan ajatuksia Twirling World -teoksesta
Tässä ihanan avustajamme Manda Konttisen ajatuksia edellisen Twirling World -teoksen esitysperiodin jälkeen:
Viimeisestä kerrasta esitystä jäi niin koskettunut olo. Ystäväni Aulin rinnallesi asettaman sydämen tunsi yleisö myös omalla ihollaan ja sitä seurannut liikutus puhdisti katarttisesti. Esityksesi idean, vuosituhansina kasattujen roolien painosta vapautumisen, koki sisäisesti eikä pelkästään älyllisesti oivaltavana katsojana.
Tatu on kyllä tehnyt vaikuttavan äänitaustan teokseesi. Mieleenpainuvinta oli alkupuolen ääni, joka oli ikäänkuin repeämäisillään tuleen millä hetkellä tahansa, valtava rajapinnan lataus.
Toinen kohta oli se, kun nainen laitettiin kypsymään omenoineen, se valmistumisen odotusta kuvaava ajan tikitys.
Kolmas oli lopun puhdas, painoton leijunta.
Iloitsen, että saan kuulla tämänkin vielä kerran.
Silmien kuvaksi haluan jättää selkäsi, kun hitaasti riisut naiseuteen liimattuja kerroksia. Selkäsi on niin paljon puhuva, sisäisen tilan avartumisesta, levollisuudesta, voimasta – kaikki niin sisäistynyttä. Pakahduttavaa.
Manda
Johanna is giving a talk at the Curators’ Seminar in Helsinki
Curators’ Seminar Helsinki
Liput/tickets: Vapaa Pääsy/Free Entry
12:00—16:15 • @ Ateneum-sali/Ateneum Hall, Kaivokatu 2 Helsinki
As a part of the festival two curators’ seminars will be taking place – the first one on Thursday May 26th in Ateneum Hall in Helsinki, and the second on Sunday May 29th in the Studio of Turku City Library.
The festival curators Christopher Hewitt, Kimmo Modig and Lois Keidan representing the Live Art Development Agency, and Nieves Correa, the artistic director of Acción!MAD performance art event and Johanna Tuukkanen, the artistic director of  ANTI – Contemporary Art Festival will be taking part to the Helsinki seminar. Tuomas Laitinen from the Presentaatio – Performance and Live Art Information Center Finland will be the moderator of the seminar.
The topic of the curators’ seminar in Helsinki is “The Processes of Selection in Artâ€. The network of the world of the performance and the live art is relatively young, dense, conscientious and constantly in forming progress. The artists move more internationally nowadays and their networking is more and more extensive. Have the mechanisms of curating, by which the artists are selected to the festivals and corresponding events, changed essentially? Have the performance festivals changed, for instance, in the past ten years, and how? And what kind of changes are there to be expected in the future as far as festivals are concerned?
As a part of the seminar program Presentaatio – Performance and Live Art Information Center Finland will publish the winner of Presentaatio Award for a notable performance and live art act of the year 2010.
In addition Leena Kela, a regional artist of performance art at the Arts Council of South-West Finland will publish the Performance Art Bank database that presents current Finnish performance and Live Art at www.performanssi.com, and in a published catalogue. The database is maintained by Artists’ Association MUU and the Arts Council of South-West Finland.
The event is organised in collaboration with Ateneum Hall and Presentaatio – Performance and Live Art Information Center Finland.
a post about Twirling World (in Finnish)
Read here what 20 year old Ansku has written about Twirling World performance, in Finnish.
London & Brussels in April
Johanna will be working with Gregg & Laura on the upcoming ANTI Festival in London for a few days in the end of April and attend A Space for Live Art project meeting and Trouble Festival in Brussels.
Book your tickets for the Twirling World shows
Twirling World will be performed four times in Kuopio, Finland in March. The dates are 15th, 16th, 22nd and 23rd of March and all the showtime is 7pm. Book your tickets at itak@itak.fi or call +358 44 055 3009. More information here.
Twirling World shows coming up
More performances of Twirling World coming up in March in Kuopio! The show will be performed three times in Sotku and hosted by the Regional Dance Centre of Eastern Finland. Stay tuned for exact dates and times!
15.2.2011
Johanna started working on the Arts Council of Finland’s 3-year artist grant in January 2011. Follow her thoughts and process on the blog!